Best 209 quotes in «opera quotes» category

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

I am a living soap opera.

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.